Calendario de adviento. Actividades de Navidad. (Advent Calendar in Spanish. Christmas activities)

This resource is ideal to use with your GCSE classes in the run up to Christmas. It contains a series of activities (designed to be used as starters, but some of them could take longer chunks of the lesson,and several of them could be grouped together to take a full lesson) organised as an advent calendar in which the sweet treats have been replaced by much-more-satisfying Spanish activities.
There are 23 activities altogether (one for each day from the 1st to the 23th of December), with a Christmas Song to finish off the calendar on the 24th.
The activities are designed for GCSE students, but a lot of them can be used (or easily adapted to be used with) KS3 or A Level students as well.
All activities are based on Christmas and Christmas traditions in Spain and the majority of them are supported by a printable worksheet (apart from a couple of slides for which the worksheet was not necessary).
The activities cover a wide range of vocabulary and structures (with particular emphasis on using “voy a”, “me gustaría” and similar structures to talk about the immediate future), and there’s a succession of games (battleship, game with numbers), reading (correct the mistakes, draw a Nativity scene following the description provided, who is it, and two general knowledge quizzes), speaking (role play, photo card, be nice to your partner) and writing (with several writing frames). It even includes a template to write a letter to the three Wise Men (who reply to the students a few slides later with instructions on what they need to do to make sure they receive any Christmas presents at all!).
A useful and (hopefully) fun resource for the festive season.
¡Feliz Navidad!